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When the U.S. slammed the door on Mexican cattle imports last June, Mexicans were hopping mad. Nonsense, they said; those fine Brahma bulls (which they had imported from Brazil) did not have foot & mouth disease. But the bulls did carry the dread disease, and Mexican herds in four central states and the Federal District were infected. Last week, energetic President Aleman set in motion a $40 million, three-month campaign to smash the epidemic. Emergency squads prepared to slaughter and cremate as many as a million head of cattle-one-tenth of Mexico's herds...
...Gentleman: "Oh, I admire them, of course. Only I have such a dread of stepping on them and bringing down the wrath of the fair wearer on my devoted head...
...operating-table hazard that surgeons dread most is persistent bleeding. Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported successful experiments with a magical new substance which stops bleeding almost quicker than a surgeon can say hemorrhagiparous (hemorrhage-causing). The substance: gelatin sponge...
...possession of a moral corpse. It is also certain, in the struggle, to gather a lot of allies who will almost surely make it seem to Europe's masses a champion of reaction. . . . Unmitigated Gloom. What is going to happen in Europe? One can only wonder-and dread. Will Communism overrun the Continent? At the moment the chances seem to favor that. If the Communist advance becomes too rapid, we may try to stop it. If we do, and Russia by that time has the bomb (say 1950), then no mind can imagine to horrors that will follow...
...propelled P-80, for instance, was designed as a fighter. But when its guns were first fired at 600 m.p.h., their bullets and gas blasts interrupted the smooth flow of air over the polished skin. The dread sound wave snapped its teeth, and the P-80 disintegrated...